Re: Obtaining NIS domainname from Gatorbox

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> On Wed, 12 Apr 1995, der Mouse wrote:
> 
> > > Maybe a good reason to join the crowd and not run NIS?
> > 
> > I wish.  It's clear to me that NIS is a big problem.  But what else is
> > out there?  We have a definite need to share passwd databases across
> > many machines, from multiple vendors, none of which we have source code
> > to.  How close to a solution can we get?
> 
> A wild idea, straight off the top of my head: what about using the DNS
> mechanisms?  Apologies if this has been suggested and flamed before...
> 
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Isn't that called hesiod?

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